When Shuwu learned the news and rushed to the willow tree with the head of the township pavilion and a few others, he found that he was a step too late. The house at the scene of the murder was a simple thatched hut located at a fork in the road more than 100 steps beyond the inner wall, which was the residence of Orion.

On the willow stump at the intersection of the road, a red horse was tethered, and a group of people watched from afar, pointing and pointing inside the house.

The chief of the township pavilion raised the two-foot wooden stump high, separated the noisy crowd first, and shouted: "You're coming, get out of the way, get out of the way!" ”

The crowd hurriedly parted, and Shu Wu walked in with his head held high surrounded by pavilion guards, only to find a hemp rope in front of him......

This is the reason why the crowd only watches from a distance at the intersection and does not squeeze in.

Shu Wu frowned, the hemp rope was tied together by several roots, pulled from the pillar of the house to the stump at the intersection, and the height was just waist-high, so it was not easy for him to jump over, nor to bend over to drill over, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

Seeing this, the head of the Xiangting Pavilion pulled out the short knife he carried with him and wanted to cut the rope and let the swimmer pass.

At this time, the onlookers hurriedly waved their hands at him and said, "Can't cut it!" This is the pavilion chief inside who asked him to tie it, saying that he is not allowed to step in! ”

"Pavilion Chief? This is under the jurisdiction of the Returning Township Pavilion, except for me, how can there be any other pavilion chief? ”

The head of the Xiangting Pavilion was suddenly unhappy, cut the rope with a wave of his knife, and walked to the door of the house with You Shuwu.

Before they entered the door, the two of them smelled a faint smell of blood, and when they looked closely, five steps inside the door, there was a woman's corpse, her hair was scattered, her lower body was bare, she was wearing nothing, and there was a knife stuck in her back, and she was bleeding all over her body......

A few steps further on, on the bed, there was the body of a shirtless man lying on his back, with a stab wound to his neck, a punctured major artery, and the blood that had coagulated on the deerskin cushion......

In addition to the two corpses, there was indeed a pavilion chief wearing a red curtain inside, and at this moment, he was pinching the white wall skin and drawing circles around the two corpses......

"Chief Heifu."

Seeing this person, Shu Wu's face suddenly darkened, and he asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Heifu raised his head and saw Shuwu and the head of the township pavilion, so he got up and said: "The subordinate has seen Youyi, I just went to the garden to run a horse, passing by here, I heard someone shouting for murder, so I heard the sound and came to see." Seeing that the local pavilion chief had not arrived, he took matters into his own hands and restrained the spectators to save them from destroying the scene of the crime. ”

"Destruction of the crime scene?"

Shu Wu looked at the hemp rope at the intersection and found that there was also one tied at the open window, and wherever there were blood stains in the room, a circle was drawn with white wall skin......

He was not a professional jailer, so of course he didn't understand the benefits of doing so, so he just said with a straight face: "Since you were the first to come here, why didn't you go after the murderer, but waste your time here?" Doing these useless things? ”

"Useless things?"

Heifu was a little funny, he had taken a criminal investigation class in his previous life, and one of the sections talked about how to protect the crime scene. So he drew a scoop according to the gourd, and asked Li Zheng to help, and surrounded the entrances and exits with ropes to block the scene. Limit the onlookers to 20 steps away from the scene of the crime, prohibit them from approaching, in order to prevent the destruction of the criminal traces and physical evidence on the periphery of the scene, it is best not to step on the road in and out, and the door and window are not allowed to move!

But Xia Worm can't talk about ice, since Shu Wu doesn't understand, he no longer cares about this matter, but points to the corpse and says: "You Xi, please look, the blood stains on these two people are about to solidify, I tried the body temperature, most of the places have cooled, and some parts have faint corpse spots, so it can be seen that the two deceased have been dead for at least two or three hours, and the murderer has already run far away." ”

This also involves the method of inferring the time of death of the deceased in forensic medicine, and Heifu only knows the simplest three, but saying it at this moment is enough to make the two of them stunned.

At this time, Heifu walked to the door again, pointed to a village woman in her thirties and a cloth skirt outside, and asked her to come and talk.

"She was the first to find out about the killing, Huan, you will tell You Yi and the head of the Township Pavilion what happened."

Asking the victim and eyewitnesses to stay where they are and wait for the criminal investigators to arrive is also one of the ways to protect the scene.

The village woman named "Huan" walked over sneeringly, but she didn't dare to look at the corpse, turned her face, and after saluting Shuwu, she began to tremble and tell the story again.

"This woman's name is Reed, the wife of Lizhong Orion, and I know each other, and we often pick mulberries and forage wild vegetables together on weekdays. At noon today, I made some sunflower soup to give her some, and went out of the back door to her door, only to find it open. After shouting a few times and no one answered, I pushed the door open and saw her lying on the ground with a stab in the back......"

Huan's teeth chattered as she spoke, which showed that the scene left an indelible impression on her, and the sunflower soup splashed on the ground at the door also confirmed her words, and after she shouted loudly, Heifu rode over and took over the scene.

"This woman is Orion's wife, and the dead man in there is Orion?"

Shu Wu found that there were a lot of animal skins and bones piled up in the house, and there was a bow hanging on the wall, but the string was loosened.

Huan hesitated for a while before he whispered, "That person ...... It's not her family......"

"Isn't it?"

Shu Wu immediately asked, "Then who is he?" ”

Heifu answered: "According to the onlookers, the man is the inner prison gate, and the lord is the upper one. ”

"Actually a dead Shangzao, or is it the prison gate?"

The head of the Xiangting Pavilion was a little surprised, and Shu Wu touched his beard and said, "In this way, the Inner Prison Gate has committed adultery with Orion's wife!" ”

In the Qin State, the punishment for adultery and infidelity was very severe, and ordinary men and women committed adultery, and after being caught, they were woodened and displayed to the public. If there is adultery between half-siblings, the penalty is abandonment.

Heifu didn't know that after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, this law would become more and more severe under the will of the First Emperor, not only would cheating women be severely punished by society, but also those men who couldn't control the lower half of their bodies and hooked up with married women everywhere would also be severely punished.

This may be related to the early experience of the first emperor, his mother Zhao Ji had a very disorderly private life, not only broke off the connection with Lü Buwei, but later raised the fake eunuch Chang Yu in the palace, and the two also gave birth to two children......

This incident brought a large shadow to Qin Shi Huang's heart, so after he ruled the world, the punishment for the crime of adultery was further strengthened: "The husband is a sustenance (jiā), and he is not guilty of killing." The so-called "parasitic pig" refers to the boar that runs to other people's homes to breed, which means that if a man gets into someone else's bed like that boar, then he doesn't have to admit responsibility for killing him, and everyone can be punished.

Of course, it hasn't reached that level yet, and killing people is still a crime, not to mention the death of two people in a row, one of whom is still a li.

Shu Wu thought for a moment, then patted his head and said: "I know, it must be this Orion who came home and found out that his wife was committing adultery, so he killed the two in a fit of anger and absconded!" It must be so! ”

So saying, he was going to have the Orion arrested.

Heifu said: "Orion is indeed very suspicious, but according to the insiders, he often goes up the mountain to hunt, and he goes for a few days, and I have entrusted Li Zheng to look for it......"

Shu Wu found that everything he needed to do was done by this black man, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy, but in front of everyone, he couldn't attack.

At this moment, there was another uproar in the crowd outside, and it turned out that it was the jailer stationed in the township from the county jail.

The jailer is equivalent to the bailiff and forensic doctor of later generations, and has received special training, and whenever there is a homicide, they need to appear, and the jailer who comes is not a stranger, but Xi's right-hand man, and Heifu once dealt with the "anger".

Furrowing his brows, he came to the house, saluted everyone, he had already seen the rope blocking outside, and after entering, he saw the white circle drawn on the ground, and couldn't help asking: "Who did these measures?" ”

Shu Wu was secretly happy in his heart, feeling that this black man not only overstepped his responsibilities and pointed fingers in the jurisdiction of the head of the township pavilion, but also said something to "protect the scene of the crime", tied ropes indiscriminately, and drew circles on the ground for unknown purposes.

He has handled these cases so many times, and he has never seen a jailer do it?

So Shuwu gloated and pointed at Heifu and said, "Jailer, it's all done by this Heifu Pavilion Chief, and I don't know why he is like this." ”

looked at Heifu angrily, but his face was happy, and he praised loudly: "Well done! ”